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To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/29/2014 7:32:49 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586426

tejek--- it's hard to believe there are people like you running lose.

To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/29/2014 7:50:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1586426

Naturally, he tried to change the subject to public sector unions...

To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/29/2014 8:01:20 PM
From: i-node	12 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 Burlitis D.Austin d[-_-]b FJB and 7 more members Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586426

>> God, its hard to believe there are people like you running lose. It is hard for ME to believe we have schoolteachers in this country who can't spell "loose."

To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/30/2014 9:00:33 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1586426

Obama Could Be Finally Going To Jail... Even Democrats Admit This Is Inevitable 8 western

To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/30/2014 9:45:06 AM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Recommended By Honey_Bee joseffy Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1586426

PAPER: CNN lying when they say Ferguson protests were 'peaceful'... Here’s a quiz for you folks in the media: What happens if you’re out doing “man on the street” interviews but none of the men on the street fit your “narrative”? If you’re CNN, you stop interviewing them. It has been remarkable to watch the last few days as America’s self-styled “most trusted news network” has sent out teams of reporters to various areas of Ferguson, Mo., ostensibly to cover the protests there. While their cameramen are watching cars on fire and stores being looted, the reporters ramble on about how “most people here” are “peaceful protesters.” Where are these peaceful protesters? The reporters can’t seem to find any. Instead, they turn to outside experts and some carefully vetted religious leaders to talk about “the real message” of the protests. On Tuesday night, CNN correspondent Jason Carroll was reporting, “Most of the protesting we saw in front of the Ferguson Police Department tonight was peaceful.” Then as he started trying to explain the fires burning behind him, he was approached by three of the protesters, who proceeded to get in his face and yell at him because he was promoting a “certain narrative” — the police narrative. “You don’t understand!” one screamed. Anchor Don Lemon quickly went elsewhere, saying he was worried about Carroll’s safety. When Lemon returned to Carroll later in the broadcast and asked him what the men were saying to him, Carroll refused to say. The reporter was stonewalling because, he explained, these men didn’t “represent” the peaceful protesters who were really the story. CNN’s “narrative” was laid out early on Monday evening as correspondent Van Jones (formerly of the Obama administration) warned the audience not to pay attention to “a few knuckleheads” who later became a “bunch of knuckleheads” who “started a bunch of nonsense.” Knuckleheads? Nonsense? When did knucklehead become a synonym for arsonist? When did taking a baseball bat to store windows become “a bunch of nonsense?” Talk about defining deviancy down. On Tuesday night, Lemon even asked Jones about the difficulty they were having in finding peaceful protesters to interview, and Jones replied that “a lot of these young people are on the knife’s edge between violence and nonviolence.” What does that even mean? Lemon did not ask. Instead, he returned to Marc Lamont Hill, who explained that the problem is not the protesters but the police who have been “disingenuous” by closing off a road to protesters after they heard shots being fired. Again, he notes that the protesters were very peaceful — and would have remained so if it weren’t for those police officers making people so angry by stifling their voices. This is a news organization that has lost all sense of its role. There was even a debate among these knuckleheads — sorry, correspondents — over whether they should have aired video of Michael Brown’s stepfather standing on top of a car yelling, “Burn this bitch down,” right after the verdict was released. Modal TriggerVehicles burn at a car dealership during riots in Ferguson.Photo: EPA When the Brown family called for peaceful protest, that was reported, but this outburst may not have been newsworthy, according to some of the CNN experts. Come on. Enough is enough. These were not peaceful protests from the beginning. Modal TriggerDemonstrators block traffic during protests outside the Ferguson Police Department November 24th.Photo: Getty Images Civil disobedience does not happen at night. No matter when the grand jury decision was announced, people who are engaged in peaceful protest take out their signs and march down the street in broad daylight. Modal TriggerA local business the morning after the grand jury delivered their decision.Photo: AP Peaceful protesters don’t wear creepy anarchist masks or even bandannas to cover their faces. They are protesting with a clear conscience and are happy to have anyone know their identity. Peaceful protesters do not dress like they are about to knock over a convenience store because they are not about to knock over a convenience store. From day one, CNN has twisted the Ferguson story. The network decided early on that an injustice had been done, contrary facts aside. When the grand jury decided not to indict, CNN was primed for outrage, because there was no way officer Darren Wilson could have acted appropriately. The network helped stir up a nation to the point of violence. Yet, since the protesters must always be on the side of angels, CNN lies about the destruction that follows. It’s rare you see the liberal media’s dishonesty in such stark terms, but CNN can’t control the pictures. If you wanted to know what was really happening this week, all you had to do was press the mute button.

To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/30/2014 10:31:44 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1586426

Obama’s Ferguson Sellout Obama's irresponsible statements will make a bad situation worse. .................................................................................... 11/30/2014, city-journal.org ^ \| Heather MacDonald President Obama betrayed the nation last night. Even as he went on national television to respond to the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, the vicious violence that would destroy businesses and livelihoods over the next several hours was underway. Obama had one job and one job only last night: to defend the workings of the criminal-justice system and the rule of law. Instead, he turned his talk into a primer on police racism and criminal-justice bias. In so doing, he perverted his role as the leader of all Americans and as the country’s most visible symbol of the primacy of the law. Obama gestured wanly toward the need to respect the grand jury’s decision and to protest peacefully. “We are a nation built on the rule of law. And so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make,” he said. But his tone of voice and body language unmistakably conveyed his disagreement, if not disgust, with that decision. “There are Americans who are deeply disappointed, even angry. It’s an understandable reaction,” he said. Understandable, so long as one ignores the evidence presented to the grand jury. The testimony of a half-dozen black observers at the scene demolished the early incendiary reports that Wilson attacked Brown in cold blood and shot Brown in his back when his hands were up. Those early witnesses who had claimed gratuitous brutality on Wilson’s part contradicted themselves and were in turn contradicted by the physical evidence and by other witnesses, who corroborated Wilson’s testimony that Brown had attacked him and had tried to grab his gun. (Minutes before, the nearly 300-pound Brown had thuggishly robbed a shopkeeper of a box of cigars; Wilson had received a report of that robbery and a description of Brown before stopping him.) Obama should have briefly reiterated the grounds for not indicting Wilson and applauded the decision as the product of a scrupulously thorough and fair process. He should have praised the jurors for their service and courage in following the evidence where it led them. And he should have concluded by noting that there is no fairer criminal justice system in the world than the one we have in the United States. Instead, Obama reprimanded local police officers in advance for their presumed overreaction to the protests: “I also appeal to the law enforcement officials in Ferguson and the region to show care and restraint in managing peaceful protests that may occur. . . . They need to work with the community, not against the community, to distinguish the handful of people who may use the grand jury’s decision as an excuse for violence . . . from the vast majority who just want their voices heard around legitimate issues in terms of how communities and law enforcement interact.” Such skepticism about the ability of the police to maintain the peace appropriately was unwarranted at the time and even more so in retrospect; the forces of law and order didn’t fire a single shot last night. Nor did they inflict injury, despite having been fired at themselves. Missouri governor Jay Nixon has been under attack for days for having authorized a potential mobilization of the National Guard—as if the August rioting didn’t more than justify such a precaution. Any small business owner facing another wave of violence would have been desperate for such protection and more. Though Nixon didn’t actually call up the Guard last night, his prophylactic declaration of a state of emergency proved prescient. Obama left no doubt that he believed the narrative of the mainstream media and race activists about Ferguson. That narrative held that the shooting of Brown was a symbol of nationwide police misbehavior and that the August riots were an “understandable” reaction to widespread societal injustice. “The situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is in too many parts of this country a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color.” This distrust is justified, in Obama’s view. He reinvoked the “diversity” bromide about the racial composition of police forces, implying that white officers cannot fairly police black communities. In fact, some of the most criticized law-enforcement bodies in recent years have been majority black. “We have made enormous progress in race relations,” Obama conceded. “But what is also true is that there are still problems and communities of color aren’t just making these problems up. . . . The law too often feels like it’s being applied in a discriminatory fashion . . . these are real issues. And we have to lift them up and not deny them or try to tamp them down.” To claim that the laws are applied in a discriminatory fashion is a calumny, unsupported by evidence. For the president of the United States to put his imprimatur on such propaganda is bad enough; to do so following a verdict in so incendiary a case is grossly irresponsible. But such partiality follows the pattern of this administration in Ferguson and elsewhere, with Attorney General Eric Holder prematurely declaring the Ferguson police force in need of wholesale change and President Obama invoking Ferguson at the United Nations as a manifestation of America’s ethnic strife. Last night’s wanton destruction was over-determined. For weeks, the press has been salivating at the potential for black violence. The New York Times has been running several stories a day, most on the front page, about such a prospect, building on its series earlier in the fall about racism in Ferguson. Press coverage of racial tension treats black violence as both expected and normal. By now, riots are regarded as virtually a black entitlement. The press is dusting off hoary tropes about police stops and racism. Clearly we are reentering a period of heightened anti-law enforcement agitation, recalling the racial profiling crusade of the 1990s. The New York Times’s fall series selected various features of Ferguson almost at random and declared them racist, simply by virtue of their being associated with the city. A similar conceit has already emerged regarding the now-concluded grand jury investigation: innocent or admirable features of the prosecutor’s management of the case, such as the thoroughness of the evidence presented, are now blasted as the product of a flawed or deliberately tainted process, so desperate are the activists to discredit the grand jury’s decision. This misinformation about the criminal-justice system and the police will increase hatred of the police. That hatred, in turn, will heighten the chances of more Michael Browns attacking officers and getting shot themselves. Police officers in the tensest areas may back off of assertive policing. Such de-policing will leave thousands of law-abiding minority residents who fervently support the police ever more vulnerable to thugs. Obama couldn’t have stopped the violence last night with his address to the nation. But in casting his lot with those who speciously impugn our criminal-justice system, he has increased the likelihood of more such violence in the future. Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/30/2014 1:25:16 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 1586426

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To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/30/2014 1:30:49 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1586426

OBAMA INCENTIVIZES THE LAWLESS AND PENALIZES THE LAWFUL

To: tejek who wrote (819805)	11/30/2014 2:13:13 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1586426

The DeAndre Joshua Murder Posted on November 29, 2014 by sundance DeAndre Joshua, 20, was murdered on the same night of the Saint Louis Grand Jury announcement. DeAndre was shot in the head, and then a flammable liquid poured on him and set afire inside his vehicle. DeAndre Joshua also fits the social profile of several eye-witnesses who gave the police/FBI statements and testified before the Grand Jury in the Mike Brown shooting case. If that were the only coincidence it might be easy to dismiss. Alas, it’s not. Out of an abundance of caution for other witnesses we are avoiding outlining the most direct connections. As you are aware DeAndre was an employed black male, with no history of drug use or illicit behavior. In the Canfield Community marijuana is not considered illicit, nor does weed really qualify as drug use – it’s as common as tobacco. DeAndre was also a friend of Dorian Johnson who is currently under protection. Obviously his friend, Dorian Johnson is very alarmed,understandably so.On the night before the Grand Jury announcement, there were considerable nerves amid a select group in the Ferguson community. As the attention of a nation turned to the grand jury decision, and also to the demands of the Justice for Mike Brown coalition, Dorian Johnson was potentially going to be the recipient of a tremendous amount of angst. Several people were looking for DeAndre and Dorian. Dorian was in hiding – DeAndre was vulnerable. Another witness who falls into this almost identical profile is Witness #35, who has been identified under the name “Viron”. However, even the FBI agents who interviewed Viron are unsure of his actual identity. Witness #35 presented himself for FBI interview with an “uncle”, and a female attorney. When it came to identify himself, well, the ambiguity is almost unbelievable were it not documented by the federal authorities. ( See Page #32) Witness #35 would not give his real name, nor his social security number, nor his address or contact information, and would only sign his statement with an alias. In hindsight, and against the backdrop of the death of DeAndre Joshua, the reluctance of Witness #35 might lead a researcher to understand a prescient fear was not unfounded. However, social media is identifying a profile that fits a connection to Dorian as described in the affidavit, Viron becomes Devorion Livingston. Devorion is a friend to both eye-witness and robbery cohort Dorian Johnson, along with the murdered DeAndre Joshua. Given the relationships, the connections, and the documented associations, Devorion fits the profile of Witness #35 who gave the painful to read testimony to the FBI where they were consistently reminding him, and warning him, about the risks of lying about the events. Witness #35 read his testimony here. Devorion Livingston is also pictured below with Dorian Johnson last year at Canfield apartment complex. Note the vehicle in the background: DeAndre Joshua murder […] Authorities say a pile of broken glass and blood lay beside the white Pontiac Grand Prix Joshua was found inside. ( link) Yes, that’s a White Grand Prix behind Dorian Johnson (purple shirt) and Devorian Livingston. Both Dorian Johnson and Devorion Livingston found out about DeAndre’s brutal murder at approximately the same time. Dorian Johnson, who is in protective custody, was understandably freaking out. Below you can see how Devorion Livingston payed homage to his now murdered friend the day he found out. Apparently the three Canfield friends, Devorion, Dorian and DeAndre, knew each other for quite some time. However, prior to the grand jury announcement Devorion Livingston and his pregnant wife (?) got the heck outta dodge Ferguson. (click to enlarge and read the FB narrative) [ Moving to Arizona for a few years. Smart. ] Obviously DeAndre Joshua didn’t leave Ferguson – he was murdered last Monday in Canfield Greens Apartment complex, mere yards away from where Mike Brown was shot. So the ultimate question becomes is this just mere coincidence? Dorian, Devorian and DeAndre being close friends. Dorian in hiding, Devorian having left town, and DeAndre now murdered. A person would have to be exceptionally obtuse not to see the connections. But if it’s not a coincidence, then why? Street Justice Rules – Witness #14 gives a chilling account of what would happen to these kids if they told the wrong story – and what were the risks. Initially Witness #14 talked to State investigators – however, in his August 12th statement he mentioned the false story surrounding the “hands up – don’t shoot” narrative; and the pressure from the community to tell lies in support of the construct ( read here). That initial statement prompted the FBI to come and visit Witness #14 specifically to talk about that aspect of his statement. Within the FBI interview -a day before he was scheduled to appear before the grand jury- Witness #14 tells the FBI not only about the “hand’s up” story being totally made up by the community, but also that Mike Brown’s step-dad, Louis Head, was the enforcer to insure compliance ( read here). [ Louis Head, Mike Brown's stepdad, big guy in the Bloods, apparently runs Ferguson. ] Apparently Louis Head was the threat to make sure that all of the witnesses in/around Canfield Greens Apartment complex said the right things, the “hands up – don’t shoot” things. Louis Head was also the person who gained notoriety by climbing upon a vehicle and shouting “Burn This Bitch Down” the night DeAndre was murdered… …. The night DeAndre Joshua was indeed “burned down” while seated in his Grand Prix. Witness #14 was scheduled to testify on September 25th at 10:30am. He never showed up. Perhaps these are all coincidences. Perhaps. However, perhaps Louis Head, and those of like-minded association, also hold the greatest motive for anger toward Dorian Johnson, and as a consequence toward anyone who was unsuccessful at getting Justice for Mike Brown. Several of the eye-witnesses, who gave honest testimony to the Grand Jury, were, according to their own statements, warned immediately after the shooting to keep their mouths shut. All of the eye-witnesses were African American. If you read the reports the sense of fear about speaking the truth is overwhelming. Many, if not all, of the witness statements outlined in police reports, FBI reports, and later in Grand Jury testimony -who testified to the factual events as outlined by officer Wilson, and whose testimony fit the physical and forensic evidence- were threatened by the local Canfield Greens community. Was the murder of DeAndre Joshua an outcome of a broken street code? His family thinks so: ( Via Daily Mail) A man has died during the Ferguson riots just yards from where Michael Brown was shot dead. Residents on Canfield Drive said that DeAndre Joshua, 20, was shot whilst in his car though police at the scene refused to confirm any details. DeAndre’s grandmother Renita Towns said that ‘somebody killed him’ during the carnage. She said that he graduated Beaumont High School and that he was working in Wal-Mart. Family member Brian Joshua, 45, added: ‘He was a good kid, he’s gone to high school, he’s got a job, he’s not into drugs or any of that stuff. ‘I only saw him yesterday morning. He was a smart guy, he spoke cleanly, he was positive’. Police took away DeAndre’s white Pontiac Grand Prix and interviewed witnesses around 11am. A woman in her 20s broke down in tears and said: ‘I knew him, he was my twin’. ( read more) This is a typical example of the sentiment, threats and fear: { snip} Here’s another example: ( pg. 197 GJ Vol #7) You can read through just this one report and read/see all of the people who would not assist law enforcement or the FBI out of FEAR. – CLICK HERE - “ Burn These Bitches“… FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County police say that a 20-year-old man whose dead body was found inside a car in Ferguson, Missouri, after riots erupted had been intentionally set on fire. (link) Sooner or later, the sheer scope of the connected facts make the claims of coincidence ring hollow.In the interim, where’s the Justice for DeAndre Foundation? http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/11/29/the-deandre-joshua-murder/ ............ whodoneit says: November 29, 2014 at 10:08 pm What has happened to DeAndre Joshua is a heartbreaking atrocity and needs to be investigated to the fullest extent by law enforcement. A thug was killed in self defense, and a law abiding young man was murdered in cold blood for telling the truth about it – “executed” by a member of his own community for not following the proper “race code” narrative. So another young black man in Ferguson is dead – truly “murdered” this time. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the outcry for justice? Where is the sympathy for the family of this young black man who’s only “crime” was telling the truth? It’s nowhere to be found because they killed him themselves, and black on black crime is totally acceptable. The death of this decent young man is nothing to them. Only the death of a thug who was killed by a “white” man meets their warped agenda. Sick! ............. JunieG says: November 30, 2014 at 12:00 am “Black Lives Matter” only when they fit the narrative. It was over quick for Trayvon and Michael Brown. Not so for this guy. His own loving gentle wanting only justice peeps saw to it that he died HORRIBLY. God help you if you, black or white victim of violence, don’t fit the narrative. This is more than murder. This is sadistic murder, characterized by disproportionate violence, and meant to send out a message to anyone else who snitches on any gentle giant and his perfect loving family. Yet – silence. If one considers suffering a factor, this is a way worse killing than Mike Brown. Funny how no one considers this horrific death on the same scale as Mike Brown, or is screaming for justice for him. He was not killed by a white, you see, therefore it doesn’t matter. .............